Jonas Mekas
Directing
167
Acting Credits
155
Directed
Biography
Jonas Mekas (24-12-1922 - 23-1-2019) was born in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949 the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City, where they settled down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and beg...
Known For
Kulturplatz
Self
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Self (archive footage)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Self
365 Day Project
Self
Filmography
A Mixtape for Stom
2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
as Self
Notes for a Déjà vu
2022
Vertigo
2022
Jonas Mekas Anthology
2022
as Jonas Mekas
Fragments of Paradise
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
The Velvet Underground
2021
as Self
Back from New York
2021
as Himself
The Invisible Father
2021
as Self (archive footage)
9/11: Life Under Attack
2021
as Self
Tapes
2020
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
2020
as Himself
Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas/version 1
2019
as Self
Cinema and Sanctuary
2019
as Self
Keep singing: a tribute to Jonas Mekas
2019
Makeshift (for Mekas)
2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
as Self
Self Discovery for Social Survival
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Elegy for J.M.
2019
Jonas Towards Broadway
2019
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
as Self
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Nitsch
2018
Beyond the Bolex
2018
as Self
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
as Self
On the Holy Spirit
2016
I Had Nowhere to Go
2016
as Himself
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
as Self
EXPRMNTL
2016
as himself
Últimas correspondencias
2016
as Self
All About Bolex
2015
A Report from Venice
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
as Self
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
as Sé stesso
My Birthday
2014
River of Fundament
2014
as Wake Guest
My Conversations on Film
2013
as Himself
What Is Cinema?
2013
as Self
Jonas in the Jungle
2013
as Self
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012
as Jonas Mekas
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Himself
Reminiscences from Germany
2012
as Self
Guest
2011
as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself
My Mars Bar Movie
2011
as himself
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011
as Himself
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
as Himself (voice) (segment "Mt. Ventoux")
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Lavender
2010
as Self
Visionaries
2010
as Himself
New York Conversations
2010
Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas
2010
as himself
The Signing
2009
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009
as Self
It Came from Kuchar
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009
as Himself
Doc
2008
as Himself
Question a Day
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
as Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
as Self
Tuesday Jan. 9, 2007
2007
as Self
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
Sunday December 30, 2007
2007
as Self
Anger Me
2006
as Himself
Notes on Marie Menken
2006
as Self
Salvador Dalí at Work
2006
as Self
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
Who Gets to Call It Art?
2006
as Self
The Song of Central Park
2006
as Himself (voice)
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006
as Self
Jonas' Independence Speech at the Anniversary of the Filmmaker's Cooperative
2006
Graffiti Museum Bronx, NYC
2006
End of the Millennium Espresso
2006
Imperfect Film
2006
Taping for As I was Moving Ahead…
2006
Kreutzer Sonata
2006
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
as Self
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
2005
A Letter from Greenpoint
2004
as Mekas
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
Not in Our Name
2003
as himself
Axiom of Choice
2003
as Self
Jonas Keeps Shooting Around
2002
as Himself
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Himself
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
2002
A Letter to Penny Arcade
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
2000
as Himself
Laboratorium Anthology
1999
as Himself
Letter to John from Jonas
1999
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
1999
as Self
My Country is Cinema
1998
as Self
Song of Avignon
1998
as Self
Jonas Mekas in Paris 10/97
1998
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Self
Michael Snow Up Close
1996
as Himself
Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old
1996
as Himself
Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October
1996
as Himself
Nico Icon
1995
as Self
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
Jonas Mekas in Budapest
1993
as Himself
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
1993
as Self
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus)
1992
Award
1992
as Himself
Interview and Reading: Jonas Mekas
1991
as Himself
Just Visiting This Planet
1991
Quartet Number One
1991
Step Across the Border
1990
as Butterfly Wing
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
as Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
1990
as Self
Belladonna
1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989
as Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Himself
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
as Self
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Persistence of Vision
1984
as Self
Strong Medicine
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
Travel Songs
1981
as Self (uncredited)
J. Mekas
1980
as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
as Self
Self-Portrait
1980
as Himself
ORG
1979
as Self (archive footage)
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979
as Himself
Notes for Jerome
1978
as Self
Four Shadows
1978
Cinématon
1978
as N°1590
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Postcard from America
1975
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Going Home
1972
as Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
as Self
Imagine
1972
as Self
Journey to Lithuania
1971
as Himself
Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
1971
as Self
Up Your Legs Forever
1971
as Self - Legs
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
Filmmakers
1969
as Himself
Jonas
1968
as Himself
Underground New York
1968
as Self
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as self
The Song of Avila
1967
as Narrator
Poem Posters
1967
as Self
Galaxie
1966
as Self
The Love Merchant
1966
as Lounge Patron
![Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5yEUYxLQWc71aL7OGrhSnpslsQO.jpg)
Screen Test [ST211]: Jonas Mekas
1966
as himself
Shooting Guns
1966
Jonas in the Brig
1965
as Himself
Dirt
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
as Self
Empire
1965
as Self (uncredited)
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
as Self
Diane the Zebra Woman
1962
The Sin of Jesus
1961